How to delete a Python package

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Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:
> Skip,
> I agree. Some kind of a manifest or log file would be great and
> probably not that hard to implement.
> Nick

What's wrong with the "record" option of install:
  python setup.py install --record installed_files

Then it's pretty easy to do:
  rm -rf  `cat installed_files`

Hmm, I guess that's easy on *nix.
Maybe setup *should* support uninstall for consistant cross-platform
behavior.

-- George
>
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> > Nick> Uninstall support is hard, you would turn distutils (setup.py)
> >     Nick> into a package management system, but wait...!  there are already
> >     Nick> package managers that do exactly that (rpm, deb, Windows
> >     Nick> Installer).
> >
> > Note that I don't really care about uninstall support, certainly not enough
> > to go through the pain of editing distutils.  I'd be happy if the installer
> > wrote a MANIFEST file that tells me what files and directories it did
> > install.  I'm not as worried about dependencies or overlaps between packages
> > as much as making sure that when I want to get rid of package X I can
> > actually delete all of its files.  I also realize that's not truly package
> > management in the rpm/deb sense, but that would be good enough for me.
> >
> > My message was simply pointing out that telling people "use RPM or DEB" is
> > not really acceptable.  Not everyone uses Linux.  Or Windows.  Or Macs.
> > Python is a cross-platform language.  Through distutils it includes a basic
> > cross-platform installation facility.  It probably ought to also have a
> > corresponding basic cross-platform uninstall facility.
> > 
> > Skip